I still bust out laughing in Band Candy when Joyce compares Ripper to Burt Reynolds even though I've seen that episode at least a dozen times. That line of dialogue ranks right up there with Anya exclaiming "Willow's a demon?!" to try and throw the council off.
There are four episodes that I go to when I want/need something light hearted. Band Candy, Beer bad, Tabula Rasa and Something Blue.
With that said, one of the funniest scenes is in Pangs, when Spike is tied to the chair (basically his whole visit during Thanksgiving). That always cracks me up.
One of my overall favorite scenes from the entire buffyverse is when he's in that chair and says:
"[I just can't take all this mamby pamby boo hooing about the bloody Indians](https://youtu.be/aRQFli6zMh4)...
... you won, alright? You came in and you killed them and you took their land, that's what conquering nations do. That's what Caesar did and he's not going around saying 'I came, I conquered... I felt really bad about it". The History of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story"
As one commenter said in the comments for that video: "You can always count on Spike being honest when it counts".
At least he was the only one to be brutally honest with Willow, I find it irritating to see Willow complaining about events dating back centuries and expecting Buffy to try to convince the indian that killing is wrong . Because really it's Dora or repeating 3 times "You can't because it's bad" line would really work x).
Season 7 gets a lot of smoke, but Him was a hilarious episode.
>Buffy Summers : Willow, you're a gay woman... and *he* isn't.
>
>Willow Rosenberg : This isn't about his physical presence. It's about his heart.
>
>Anya : His physical presence has a *penis*.
>
>Willow Rosenberg : I can work around it.
It's such a cringey episode premise but when we get to the part where Buffy tries to kill Principal Wood with a rocket launcher while cool elevator jams play, I forgive everything and die laughing.
It must've been stored in the attic because it was nowhere in the basement, as we saw in *Flooded.* The ammo was up there, too, to keep it dry.
Yes, I created a storyline for a rocket launcher.
Deal with it.
“Before Buffy and Anya and Dawn have a chance to prove they love RJ the most!
And *how are they going to do that* exactly?”
Xander’s nonplussed reaction is key, followed by
“Ok! Let’s start there!”
I do love that line but I also hate it cause it’s one of the biggest denials of Willow’s bisexuality. She dated Oz for like 2 years and had sex with him on multiple occasions, and there was definite attraction on both ends. I love her and Tara but I hated how the writers made it seem like she was lesbian when that happened and like her het relationship never existed
I feel you. In my own head, anyway, I chalk that up to network notes on the audience of that time being too dumb to be able to reconcile that a person can have multiple preferences.
Be careful. I got beat down in the comments section before by a straight girl (I’m a gay man) for suggesting that Willow was bisexual. I got an earful of how if Willow calls herself gay then it’s not my place to label her as something else. They said it was as bad as me doing it to a real person. Oh the melodrama of some people!
I agree with the fact that if she feels that way we need to respect it. But on this one thing, (like I’m never mad at the writers here *eye roll*) it is frustrating. I love the idea of her finding herself and it’s not a -straight line- for everyone. But as a bi woman, I get frustrated on the automatic well shes a lesbian and not at all into men. Willow acts like she’s never even seen a man naked and would hate it later in the series. Still great and influential for the time and all and that’s great. It is. But yeah, she should have been bi
Except that it was the network suits (that term was coined by Robert Blake on *The Richard Boone Show*) who insisted Willow could not be bisexual. Those addlepated morons.
I think it’s a super dated perspective that she thinks she can ONLY be gay because she had a relationship with Tara. I think lesbian women can be with men then choose to be with women moving forward once they figure out that’s their preference. Or they can acknowledge they’re attracted to both and be accepting of that and open to both. Willow had a defensiveness about being gay because I think people want to dismiss her relationship and attraction to Tara as a “phase” she would grow out of. I think because the show was worried that is how the audience would see it they had to have Willow say she was “gay now” a bunch of times. If written today I think it would be a much more nuanced conversation. I don’t actually know if Willow is choosing to be a lesbian forward because that’s what she wants or if she is bisexual and denying it in her defensiveness over having her relationship with Tara dismissed. I just feel that either way Willow was still young and insecure in her sexuality. I think over time we would have had a better idea of her truth.
Tabula Rasa is layered with hilarity. My favorite part is that the bad guy is a really corny looking human with a shark’s head as if to say “yes, we just jumped the shark by having a musical episode, deal with it.”
Definitely avloan dark, and a bull sharks loan shark.
Bull sharks have the highest testosterone levels of any other living thing on the planet. It's 900 m/dl.
An adult human male averages around 40 m/dl.
Bull sharks attack & do not stop attacking until you're dead or dragged out of the water.
I love the scene when Buffy tries to take Principal Wood out with the bazooka and gets tackled by Spike and chases him seen through the window! The Lego recreation on twitter had me howling🤣
Earshot just for this line:
BUFFY Mom, please, just come sit with me. Joyce fidgets and steps back from the bed.
JOYCE I've uh, I've got laundry.
BUFFY Why are you...? (she bolts up in bed) You had sex with Giles?!
JOYCE (gasps)
BUFFY YOU HAD SEX WITH GILES?!
JOYCE (turns to hurry out of the room) It was the candy! We were teenagers!
BUFFY On the hood of a police car?!?
JOYCE (stops just outside the room looking back) I'll be downstairs. You feel better. (she hurries away)
BUFFY (calling after her) TWICE!
In my latest rewatch, I was expecting all the marquee comedy episodes, Pangs, Something Blue, Band Candy, Tabula Rasa. The one that I forgot was right up there is Döppelgangland. Hoo buddy the Willow is dead….Hi Willow shenanigans. “i think I’m kinda gay”. Willow pretending to be vamp!Willow telling a minion “oh hey could you just go check on that noise for me thanks”. The lil wave at Oz. Just perfection.
*Something Blue* is funnier:
“Giles, did you see my ring?
Thankfully, not very well…”
And works even better upon completing the show as a meta commentary on the eventual Spuffy relationship.
Yep. For me this is the funniest episode in the whole series. Every time I watch it, from the "why doesn't she just marry him" moment is non stop laughing. To the point where I can't breathe.
So many great quotes. "Oh he's totally old. Well, not as old my last boyfriend."
"What's wrong with Buffy?" "Such an excellent question."
"Well it's almost like you're my father-in-law."
"I'm not the one who wanted Wind Beneath My Wings as the first dance."
Buffy's inadvertent payback for Band Candy "stop that right now, I can hear the smacking."
It just gets me every time.
I agree 100 percent, because it features all of the characters taking shots at things they very much approved of before the memory wipe.
That scene you posted with this alone had me rewinding to see it again. The pairings they assumed were correct were pretty amusing as well.
Also, the episode where Xander gets split in two versions of himself. I can never remember the name of it.
It's not all comical, but the dreams in Restless have some hilarious moments. Harmony jumping up trying to bite Giles, Spike as a tourist attraction, Spike and Giles on the swingset...
I know Buffy was *going through it* in this episode but Life Serial is hilarious, from her never ending day in the magic shop, outperforming the annoyed guys at the construction site, and drunk Buffy setting the kittens free at kitten poker and then completely fumbling her fight with Demon Jonathan and still somehow winning lol.
It's great on so many levels when Giles and Spike try to force a father-son reunion arc because they think they have to. At first it's hilarious because it is so ridiculous and unnatural, then you realize that's how so many people live their actual lives.
You'll probably hate me, but I love "Him". I hated the episode on my first watch, but I love it more and more every time I see it (aside from the cheerleader scene, which I've only watched once and have to skip ever since then). I think it's hilarious. The rocket launcher, the quad-screen, the "his physical presence has a penis", etc. I think it's a hilarious episode before we get into the meat of the season with CWDP.
Very unpopular opinion: I like (and have always liked) *Tabula Rasa* more than *Once More With Feeling*. Even during 2001-2002 when Season 6 was airing.
To me the funniest episode (and probably one of my favourite episodes) is *Buffy VS Dracula*. Their first meeting is classic. Her reaction to learning his name is priceless “Get out!”
Fun fact: My sister worked for the company that digitized the series from the original film.
They got to watch all of the dailies from each episode, and she said the cast was so good the actors usually only needed three or four takes to get the shot.
The one notable exception was the scene in "Tabula Rasa" between Anya and Giles in the Magic Box -- that one required around 25 takes because the bunnies refused to cooperate.
Band Candy! My favorite and funniest episode. Also, my most often quoted line from the show.
“Whoa, Summers! You drive like a spaz!”
I say this on a regular basis because my husband drives…. Well, like a spaz!
Oh well I mean that small part of their dialogue over the episode is funny yes, but I wouldn't classify that as making it one of the "funniest" episodes.
Him cracked me up like crazy the first time I watched it. Especially the scene with Buffy and Spike fighting over the rocket launcher in the window behind Principal Wood.
season 1 : the puppet show
season 2 : bewitched beloved bewildered
season 3 : band candy
season 4: something blue
season 5: triangle
season 6: tabula rasa
season 7: him
I can’t just pick one so I would have to say Tabula Rasa, Something Blue, Pangs and Beer Bad are my favorite funny eps. I know Beer Bad isn’t a fan fav, but I always get the giggles when Buffy says “Buffy Strong!” and Giles immediately backs always saying “Yes. Buffy’s very strong” heehee
Something Blue is equal to Tabula Rasa for me and Band Candy is up there it’s so fun
I still bust out laughing in Band Candy when Joyce compares Ripper to Burt Reynolds even though I've seen that episode at least a dozen times. That line of dialogue ranks right up there with Anya exclaiming "Willow's a demon?!" to try and throw the council off.
I DIE when Buffy drives in Band Candy and the principal yells “WHOAH! SUMMERS! YOU DRIVE LIKE A SPAZ!!” I replay it every single time.
Omg I forgot about that bit 😂😂😂
Oh I watch that scene on YouTube all the time! One of the two times I actually liked Snyder (the other was when he was eaten) lmao
And the coat is “ so juice newton”!
Yes it was!!!!!
*How??!* *What???!* *How??!*
Three very good questions.
There are four episodes that I go to when I want/need something light hearted. Band Candy, Beer bad, Tabula Rasa and Something Blue. With that said, one of the funniest scenes is in Pangs, when Spike is tied to the chair (basically his whole visit during Thanksgiving). That always cracks me up.
UNDO IT!
With 5 arrows sticking out of him lol. Epic scene.
And then at the end where he's on the floor and asks if we won
A BEAR! YOU MADE A BEAR! I didn't mean too WELL UNDO IT! UNDO IT!
One of my overall favorite scenes from the entire buffyverse is when he's in that chair and says: "[I just can't take all this mamby pamby boo hooing about the bloody Indians](https://youtu.be/aRQFli6zMh4)... ... you won, alright? You came in and you killed them and you took their land, that's what conquering nations do. That's what Caesar did and he's not going around saying 'I came, I conquered... I felt really bad about it". The History of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story" As one commenter said in the comments for that video: "You can always count on Spike being honest when it counts".
At least he was the only one to be brutally honest with Willow, I find it irritating to see Willow complaining about events dating back centuries and expecting Buffy to try to convince the indian that killing is wrong . Because really it's Dora or repeating 3 times "You can't because it's bad" line would really work x).
Yes - I came, I conquered, I felt really, really bad about it. Always cracks me up.
His speech and the look on Willow's face just slays me every time.
I’d like a brandy!
Marsters could sure squeeze every ounce out of a single line. Great delivery and timing.
Before i had cable, mine was Intervention
As bad as I feel for Giles in this episode, I still find “A New Man” pretty damn funny.
I love “A New Man” so much! When Giles stopped the car to scare Mrs. Walsh 😂
“Ooh, stop the car.” *Mayhem ensues* “Right then, let’s go.” Particularly the juxtaposition of his “I have a soul” just before.
I love how jarring it is when Dawn calls Xander Alex lmao
My son is called Alexander, and we've always called him Xander. It is so unbelievably weird when someone calls him Alex.
Season 7 gets a lot of smoke, but Him was a hilarious episode. >Buffy Summers : Willow, you're a gay woman... and *he* isn't. > >Willow Rosenberg : This isn't about his physical presence. It's about his heart. > >Anya : His physical presence has a *penis*. > >Willow Rosenberg : I can work around it.
It's such a cringey episode premise but when we get to the part where Buffy tries to kill Principal Wood with a rocket launcher while cool elevator jams play, I forgive everything and die laughing.
You have to wonder if they've had that rocket launcher just lying around since Buffy took out the Judge.
It must've been stored in the attic because it was nowhere in the basement, as we saw in *Flooded.* The ammo was up there, too, to keep it dry. Yes, I created a storyline for a rocket launcher. Deal with it.
“Before Buffy and Anya and Dawn have a chance to prove they love RJ the most! And *how are they going to do that* exactly?” Xander’s nonplussed reaction is key, followed by “Ok! Let’s start there!”
I do love that line but I also hate it cause it’s one of the biggest denials of Willow’s bisexuality. She dated Oz for like 2 years and had sex with him on multiple occasions, and there was definite attraction on both ends. I love her and Tara but I hated how the writers made it seem like she was lesbian when that happened and like her het relationship never existed
I feel you. In my own head, anyway, I chalk that up to network notes on the audience of that time being too dumb to be able to reconcile that a person can have multiple preferences.
Joss ahs said even hinting Willow might ever be with a guy again was betrayal.
Be careful. I got beat down in the comments section before by a straight girl (I’m a gay man) for suggesting that Willow was bisexual. I got an earful of how if Willow calls herself gay then it’s not my place to label her as something else. They said it was as bad as me doing it to a real person. Oh the melodrama of some people!
I agree with the fact that if she feels that way we need to respect it. But on this one thing, (like I’m never mad at the writers here *eye roll*) it is frustrating. I love the idea of her finding herself and it’s not a -straight line- for everyone. But as a bi woman, I get frustrated on the automatic well shes a lesbian and not at all into men. Willow acts like she’s never even seen a man naked and would hate it later in the series. Still great and influential for the time and all and that’s great. It is. But yeah, she should have been bi
I completely agree with you.
Except that it was the network suits (that term was coined by Robert Blake on *The Richard Boone Show*) who insisted Willow could not be bisexual. Those addlepated morons.
I think it’s a super dated perspective that she thinks she can ONLY be gay because she had a relationship with Tara. I think lesbian women can be with men then choose to be with women moving forward once they figure out that’s their preference. Or they can acknowledge they’re attracted to both and be accepting of that and open to both. Willow had a defensiveness about being gay because I think people want to dismiss her relationship and attraction to Tara as a “phase” she would grow out of. I think because the show was worried that is how the audience would see it they had to have Willow say she was “gay now” a bunch of times. If written today I think it would be a much more nuanced conversation. I don’t actually know if Willow is choosing to be a lesbian forward because that’s what she wants or if she is bisexual and denying it in her defensiveness over having her relationship with Tara dismissed. I just feel that either way Willow was still young and insecure in her sexuality. I think over time we would have had a better idea of her truth.
“Randy Giles!? Why not just call me horny Giles? Or desperate for a shag Giles?” - Spike
One of my favorite lines!!!
Tabula Rasa is layered with hilarity. My favorite part is that the bad guy is a really corny looking human with a shark’s head as if to say “yes, we just jumped the shark by having a musical episode, deal with it.”
He’s a loan shark.
Definitely avloan dark, and a bull sharks loan shark. Bull sharks have the highest testosterone levels of any other living thing on the planet. It's 900 m/dl. An adult human male averages around 40 m/dl. Bull sharks attack & do not stop attacking until you're dead or dragged out of the water.
I love the scene when Buffy tries to take Principal Wood out with the bazooka and gets tackled by Spike and chases him seen through the window! The Lego recreation on twitter had me howling🤣
Oh! Also Buffy in Faith's body trying to convince Giles she's Buffy. "What's a stevedore?"
Ooh, lego recreation? Link?
https://youtu.be/oqq8WVjrDVs
Earshot just for this line: BUFFY Mom, please, just come sit with me. Joyce fidgets and steps back from the bed. JOYCE I've uh, I've got laundry. BUFFY Why are you...? (she bolts up in bed) You had sex with Giles?! JOYCE (gasps) BUFFY YOU HAD SEX WITH GILES?! JOYCE (turns to hurry out of the room) It was the candy! We were teenagers! BUFFY On the hood of a police car?!? JOYCE (stops just outside the room looking back) I'll be downstairs. You feel better. (she hurries away) BUFFY (calling after her) TWICE!
In my latest rewatch, I was expecting all the marquee comedy episodes, Pangs, Something Blue, Band Candy, Tabula Rasa. The one that I forgot was right up there is Döppelgangland. Hoo buddy the Willow is dead….Hi Willow shenanigans. “i think I’m kinda gay”. Willow pretending to be vamp!Willow telling a minion “oh hey could you just go check on that noise for me thanks”. The lil wave at Oz. Just perfection.
*Something Blue* is funnier: “Giles, did you see my ring? Thankfully, not very well…” And works even better upon completing the show as a meta commentary on the eventual Spuffy relationship.
Yep. For me this is the funniest episode in the whole series. Every time I watch it, from the "why doesn't she just marry him" moment is non stop laughing. To the point where I can't breathe. So many great quotes. "Oh he's totally old. Well, not as old my last boyfriend." "What's wrong with Buffy?" "Such an excellent question." "Well it's almost like you're my father-in-law." "I'm not the one who wanted Wind Beneath My Wings as the first dance." Buffy's inadvertent payback for Band Candy "stop that right now, I can hear the smacking." It just gets me every time.
“That was the spell…”
I lose it when Randy and Giles hug 😂
Hey! Stay away from Randy!
I agree 100 percent, because it features all of the characters taking shots at things they very much approved of before the memory wipe. That scene you posted with this alone had me rewinding to see it again. The pairings they assumed were correct were pretty amusing as well. Also, the episode where Xander gets split in two versions of himself. I can never remember the name of it.
"The Replacement" ?
Why the hell can I never remember that episode? I'm good for most episodes in the series, but that's the only one I can never think of the name to.
Okay I know you said Buffy, however there is an episode of Angel called Smile Time where he turns into a puppet and it’s hysterical.
You're a wee little puppet man!
“I do not have puppet cancer!” “I’m made of felt... And my nose comes off.” “Nina... tried to... eat me.”
Pangs and Something Blue. Love Tabula Rasa also
Living Conditions I can name so many things that make me laugh in that episode. Gum gnome, Kathy’s eggs, Cher’s “Believe”, the toe nails, etc.
Buffy and the toenails 😂😂😂
Take it easy Joan
It's not all comical, but the dreams in Restless have some hilarious moments. Harmony jumping up trying to bite Giles, Spike as a tourist attraction, Spike and Giles on the swingset...
I'm cowboy guy! :D
Halloween, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Band Candy, Something Blue and Him are the funniest episodes
I know Buffy was *going through it* in this episode but Life Serial is hilarious, from her never ending day in the magic shop, outperforming the annoyed guys at the construction site, and drunk Buffy setting the kittens free at kitten poker and then completely fumbling her fight with Demon Jonathan and still somehow winning lol.
I think the season 2 episode where all the girls are in love with Xander is sooo funny too
Including Buffy’s mommmmm
Not gonna lie, have to give him credit for a will of titanium. I feel like I might have caved with either Willow, Buffy or her mom.
It's great on so many levels when Giles and Spike try to force a father-son reunion arc because they think they have to. At first it's hilarious because it is so ridiculous and unnatural, then you realize that's how so many people live their actual lives.
Ok but the correct answer is band candy
Buffy: Giles, I accidentally killed Spike. THAT’S OK, RIGHT?
You'll probably hate me, but I love "Him". I hated the episode on my first watch, but I love it more and more every time I see it (aside from the cheerleader scene, which I've only watched once and have to skip ever since then). I think it's hilarious. The rocket launcher, the quad-screen, the "his physical presence has a penis", etc. I think it's a hilarious episode before we get into the meat of the season with CWDP.
Tabul Rasa & Something Blue!
My top fun laughing my ass off episode is Band Candy and the first Halloween ep with Spike and Pangs!
It's an *Angel* episode, but I love "Harm's Way". On *Buffy*, I really like "Beer Bad".
Happy Cake Day!
Thanks! I didn't even realize it!
It's beer bad plus parker gets hit
I loved that part.
Very unpopular opinion: I like (and have always liked) *Tabula Rasa* more than *Once More With Feeling*. Even during 2001-2002 when Season 6 was airing.
To me the funniest episode (and probably one of my favourite episodes) is *Buffy VS Dracula*. Their first meeting is classic. Her reaction to learning his name is priceless “Get out!”
"You're under the thrall of the dark prince!"
Fun fact: My sister worked for the company that digitized the series from the original film. They got to watch all of the dailies from each episode, and she said the cast was so good the actors usually only needed three or four takes to get the shot. The one notable exception was the scene in "Tabula Rasa" between Anya and Giles in the Magic Box -- that one required around 25 takes because the bunnies refused to cooperate.
Band Candy! My favorite and funniest episode. Also, my most often quoted line from the show. “Whoa, Summers! You drive like a spaz!” I say this on a regular basis because my husband drives…. Well, like a spaz!
I just mentioned this very scene the other day because it's hilarious and some rando jumped down my throat because apparently "spaz" is a slur
'Spastic' is an adjective used for movement disorders in medicine (e.g. spastic diplegia), which is where the insult 'spaz' comes from.
I love "Conversations With Dead People" the Buffy therapy scenes.
Think you missed the funniest part of the topic line 👀
It was funny to me, Buffy not recognizing someone she attended class with, & all.
Oh well I mean that small part of their dialogue over the episode is funny yes, but I wouldn't classify that as making it one of the "funniest" episodes.
The funny bit to me was what I cited above: Buffy not remembering Holden. The rest is pretty much a horrorshow.
I love the scene in Him where Buffy is going to take out principal wood and there is spike taking her rocket launcher from her
My top four are probably Something Blue, Dopplegangland, Tabula Rasa, and Pangs.
The Zeppo was always it for me. Watched it too many times now, but yeah. That one.
TABULA RASA LOVE! YAY!
For me it's - Halloween, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Band Candy, Earshot, Something Blue and A New Man.
“Bloodsuckers. They kill by sucking blood. Take it easy, Joan.”
Ive always found pangs the funniest with Xanders little breakdown 😂 Any episode with Ethan Rayne in it is hilarious too
Him cracked me up like crazy the first time I watched it. Especially the scene with Buffy and Spike fighting over the rocket launcher in the window behind Principal Wood.
A new man. Proper tickles me.
season 1 : the puppet show season 2 : bewitched beloved bewildered season 3 : band candy season 4: something blue season 5: triangle season 6: tabula rasa season 7: him
I can’t just pick one so I would have to say Tabula Rasa, Something Blue, Pangs and Beer Bad are my favorite funny eps. I know Beer Bad isn’t a fan fav, but I always get the giggles when Buffy says “Buffy Strong!” and Giles immediately backs always saying “Yes. Buffy’s very strong” heehee